character: misaka_mikoto, character: shirai_kuroko. In a full-body, low-angle shot, kuroko and mikoto are crouched together in a close crouching start stance on a running track. Shorter, brown-eyed kuroko with long brown twintails secured by small bows is positioned slightly forward and on the left side of the frame, her torso leaning far down with one knee raised and both hands planted on the ground while looking directly forward. Behind her to the right, taller brown-eyed mikoto with shorter messy hair leans over her partner, her hands on kuroko’s shoulders for support. Both girls wear standard navy blue long-sleeve long-distance track uniforms—shiny, ribbed fabric tops fitted with white trim and side stripes, matching full-length compression pants pushed halfway down their thighs to reveal skin and straps of their undergarments, and standardized track shoes. The starting line with numbered lanes and lanes markings is directly beneath them on the red rubber track. Sunlit, blue-sky stadium seating filled with blurred spectators rises in rows behind the girls, while foreground track cones and white chalk markings frame the composition.